Overnight Syria strikes killed 4 Hezbollah members, two others — Iraqi militia

Three overnight airstrikes on eastern Syria near a strategic border crossing with Iraq killed six Iran-backed militants, two members of Iraqi militia groups say.

Washington did not immediately comment on the strike, though it has announced some were planned on Iran-backed militia positions following the surge of attacks over the past two months.

The strikes on the border region of Boukamal came hours after an umbrella group of Iran-backed Iraqi militants — known as the Islamic Resistance — claimed an attack on a US military base in the city of Erbil in northern Iraq. The group has conducted over a hundred attacks on US positions in Iraq and eastern Syria since the onset of the Hamas-Israel war on October 7.

Four of the killed were from Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah terror group while the other two militants were Syrian, the Iraqi militia members said. Another two were injured, they added.